Independent Online Beekeepers' College

[kazmcc]

Oh please do this! I can't get to the local meetings but would love some sort of education re: bee keeping.

Oh, btw, I'm up for the uniform, can Queens and I be models for it.....lol, just had an image of someone in one of those smock type suits and stockings, batting bees away from their legs.....or trying to out run angry bees in heels.....on second thoughts, might stick to my mitchelin man costume for now

 

[broandy]

Wont let me log in I must be banned already and I have not said any think Honest lol

 

[Queens59]

Brosville...can I volunteer as a 'guinea pig student' or spell/English checker? Be nice to do something useful with the teaching qualifications and I don't know enough bee stuff to be of use in any other way! I'd even wear the uniform...

 

[roche]

Brossville, I think you could have chosen a less contraversial topic than "how to light a smoker" as the initial course! There are going to be the pro-rotten wood brigade against the horse nuts mob, with some of the rolled up corrugated cardboard proponents fighting a small rear-guard action. All hell is going to break loose.

Well done

 

[Monsieur Abeille]

Brossville, I think you could have chosen a less contraversial topic than "how to light a smoker" as the initial course!
Well done

Haha, it would be a wise man who could identify a non controversial topic on this forum

 

[hedgerow pete]

i was thinking of some thing simple and plain like thisView attachment 2596


or this
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[BKF Admin]

I will set a copy up on the forum and have a play with it.

 

[Brosville]

even better!

You'll have hours of fun figuring the permissions....

 

[BKF Admin]

Bros is it like Joomla and Mambo ?
I have used both of them a few years back.

 

[Brosville]

Very similar - control panels from here to christmas and back.......
Not too bad once you get to grips with it (lots of "moodledocs" links with "how to") - I've sent details of my "sandbox" version so you can crib whatever you want in the way of settings etc - it'll probably save you some fertling!
Please, give it a proper home, and make it work - I just want to see the day when we have rival factions vying with each other to be offering the best advice (28 different courses on lighting a smoker etc)...........

 

[wightbees]

with lighting the smoker, i would be happy with my matches lighting first lol
I think they must get damp in the van!
Maybe wax onto the matches subject

 

[madasafish]

with lighting the smoker, i would be happy with my matches lighting first lol
I think they must get damp in the van!
Maybe wax onto the matches subject

Any training on lighting a smoker which does not say " Take self lighting butane blowlamp and apply to kindling in smoker" is out of date and worthless..

 

[wightbees]

Any training on lighting a smoker which does not say " Take self lighting butane blowlamp and apply to kindling in smoker" is out of date and worthless..

But then we would need safety training on using butane lamp

 

[Queens59]

Looks like it could be good Brosville!

 

[mbc]

A hell of a lot of beekeeping questions have differing answers according to locality with no single 'correct' answer. Makes online learning a minefield of controversy

 

[wightbees]

multi answers then
how to light a smoker in the east/ south / west / north/ N east/ N west/ S east.......could be a long answer

 

[Brosville]

I think it's every reason to have different versions of things - "Bert's way with a smoker", Angela's "Be careful with it", and my own "Smokers -the explosives route........."

Being a touch more serious, there's no reason why courses couldn't be "labelled" as "the usual way", "a different view", and "don't try this at home....."

 

[drstitson]

successful particpation

Perhaps we could award cloth badges to adorn our bee suits (like scouts/guides?).

 

[TBRNoTB]

Badges

Perhaps we could award cloth badges to adorn our bee suits (like scouts/guides?).

Iron on or stitch...but who will mark the exams? I nominate Rab!
Regards
TBRNoTB

 

[wightbees]

Iron on ,other wise i will need a needle work lesson lol
I second Rab, you got the job